On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Duncan Coutts <[email protected]> wrote: > Thomas, > > As you'll have noticed, I've pushed all your cabal test patches. I did a > bit of reorganising on top of that but nothing drastic. > > For the moment I've kept the "detailed" test type at version 0.9 since > we are still discussing some details there. > > I've added a few TODOs in the test section of > Distribution/Simple/Setup.hs. Either you or I should have a go at those > some time. I think we talked about the append and reply features before. > I don't recall if you said we needed them or not. > > For the Cabal-1.10 branch, I'm toying between a few options: > 1. Remove the test feature from the 1.10.x release entirely > 2. Update to the current state of the test patches in cabal HEAD > 3. Update to the current state of the test patches in cabal HEAD > but then disable the detailed test type, keeping just the basic > test interface for the 1.10.x releases. > > We have to do something because the current 1.10.x branch has half the > test patches and so has a random intermediate API. I'm inclined to go > for option 3. The plan would be to get some experience with the basic > interface in a few real packages and to work on getting the detailed API > sorted out in time for the next major release. That does not need to be > 12 months away, I've done major releases part-way in the GHC cycle > before. Lemme know what you think.
I'm also inclined toward option 3. I don't think developers are going to rush to immediately convert their test suites to the detailed interface anyway, so the benefits of having it are mostly long-term. There are also the issues to work out with Max. Additionally, several people approached me at HIW with the same concern about the TestOptions class--using class functions as data field accessors--and I think I can address those concerns and make a better interface all in one go. So, option 3 gives us time to think about these things. -- Thomas Tuegel _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel
